Post-punk treated culture as inherently political beyond parliamentary politics.

Evidence

The allusion to Scritti Politti makes it clear that the vision of politics that Wilkinson’s show simultaneously mourned and invoked was derived from post-punk — the outpouring of musical creativity in the late 1970s and early 1980s that was in many ways Britain’s version of Paris 68. In line with the Marxist and situationist theory it drew on and referenced, post-punk grasped culture as inherently political, insisting on a version of politics that went far beyond parliamentarianism. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1276

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply defines what post-punk claimed for itself: culture as inherently political — useful reference point.
• XREF: connects to: Post-punk’s critical stance is not repressed but made unthinkable by late capitalist pop culture. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1006; Post-punk saw entertainment culture’s claim to be apolitical as deeply ideological. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1277; Postmodern discourse makes all cultural positions secretly political, except the overtly political (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-punk saw entertainment culture’s claim to be apolitical as deeply ideological. #corroborates (0.90) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1277
• Postmodern discourse makes all cultural positions secretly political, except the overtly political #qualifies (0.75)
• Cultural and political power relations operate outside the social relations of production #expands (0.72)